In the last four years, Jon Corzine has promised to do a lot of good things. The problem is, time and again he has failed to keep those promises. Here are some examples:
1. When campaigning for governor in 2005, Jon Corzine promised to bring about "comprehensive property tax relief", including his "40 in 4 plan" to increase property tax rebates by 40% in 4 years. After breaking that promise, he promised instead that the 1-cent increase in the sales tax would allow him to preserve the rebates. Instead, as governor he has eliminated property tax rebates completely for many, and reduced them for many more. What's more, he has proposed eliminating the property-tax deduction on the state income tax, in essence making New Jerseyans pay income taxes on their property taxes - which are the highest the nation.
2. He also promised property tax reform and then he promised a Constitutional Convention to reform property taxes, neither have been heard from in years.
3. When campaigning he promised to eschew "One-shot gimmicks", he did not. In fact, this year's budget is chock full of them.
4. He promised to fully fund the state's pension obligations, instead they are funded at their lowest percentages ever, and he actually forced many municipalities to short their pension obligations as well.
5. He promised to stop the state's mounting bonded-indebtedness, instead it remains ever-growing, and is fast approaching $40 Billion.
6. He promised to have the most "open and transparent government" in NJ history - yet the Corzine Administration won't even release budget data to the Assembly without going to court. And let's not forget the Carla Katz debacle.
There are many other examples.
New Jersey Democrats - the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. We voted for Jon Corzine four years ago, since then, he’s delivered nothing but broken promises and financial disaster. We must not nominate him for Governor again, because the voters of New Jersey would have to be crazy to re-elect him!
On June 2nd, you can vote for Jon Corzine’s broken promises and financial incompetence, or you can vote for someone who knows what to do, someone who knows how to do it, and someone who has always kept his word to the voters – that’s me – Carl Bergmanson.
